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E L Konigsburg


(Elaine Lobl Konigsburg)
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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She was the only author to win the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year (1968), with her second and first books respectively: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. Kongisburg won a second Newbery Medal in 1997 for The View from Saturday, 29 years later, the longest span between any two Newberys awarded to one author.
 

Awards: Newbery (1997)  see all

Genres: Children's Fiction
 
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A Newbery Halloween (1993)
A Dozen Scary Stories by Newbery Award-Winning Authors
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Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh

Awards
1997 Newbery Medal : The View from Saturday
1968 Newbery Medal : From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

Award nominations
2001 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Silent to the Bone
1968 Newbery Medal (nominee) : Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth


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